Australia voted down a carbon tax scheme thingie. Two links:

• The AP story: Australian Senate votes down emission trading scheme
  
• And the (cranky) greenie perspective: Climate skeptics and believers unite
  

Senator Penny Wong. Australia's climate change minister. I'll bet she's fun at parties.
This Miss Australia contestant (re. not Penny Wong) is hard at work on the global warming problem:

Defeat for global warming in Australia... socialized health care on the ropes here at home... what the F? I don't know, but I'm smiling.
peace... yow, bill

PS - OK, there's Penny Wong (wikipedia). Seems like a nice enough lady. Couldn't find a bikini shot of her though.
Try harder, Penny!
He he.

PPS - Late addition... silly stats from the WSJ bad-mouthing (get ready for it) Ichiro Suzuki. Are Ichiro's Stats All Smoke and Mirrors?

First, the good/interesting stats:

• Ichiro doesn't have a monster OBP because he doesn't walk much.
• 81% of Ichiro's hits are singles. I gotta admit... I'm not sure I even believe that one. Hold on a sec... yup, it looks right: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6615
  
• Nearly 25% of his singles never leave the infield. Again, hard to believe, but OK.
  

So then they hit us with a funky new stat... "batting wins". Ichiro only produces 2 extra wins for the Mariner with his 200+ hits and .333 lifetime batting average. The stat is self-indicting as Albert Pujols is credited with 6 batting wins. Whatever.

I like Ichiro more than some of the other "singles hitters" like Rod Carew because he does more... SB, fielding, etc. Plus, nobody in baseball is more fun to watch.

WSJ be danged... 5 years after Ichiro retires, you can ink him into the HOF. Easy.

Labels: globalwarming, politics